I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic. I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade Master/Random/Limit Break Fira

Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Ian Valentine is owned by Who's Asking.

I own Kiako (That's ME!) and Miu. When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.

Other voice and memories: Italic

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Damn that Cliff Fitter! As soon as he sobers up I'm getting Kuro to beat his ass to oblivion!

"Ok, everyone who can swim, come with us." Ian said, "I'm pretty sure we could handle this thing alone."

It was only Ian, Kel, Zero, Vale, Miu and I along with Heihachi, Kakashi and Chichiri with me. The others stayed inside mostly because they didn't want to come and were resting up from... Can you guess?

Cliff had managed to get them all drunk as well... Which was amusing since Charden was totally unphased by the alchohol. Kariudo came along with her sober few. All that remained of her crew was Hakkai, Soren and Vincent. Oscar passed out from the drinks and Albel turned super violent against the other guardians, which lead to even more problems. Kein? He was passed out by walking himself into a window.

"Man, what're we doing in a place like this?" Fayt's ghost said phasing into view, "It's creepy..." I saw Chichiri staring at the dank water and gloomy weather. Thunder would boom once in a while with a flash of lightning. A heavy silence covered the area.

"Yes, I agree no da..." Chichiri said. There was a rattling sound and we all whipped around seeing it was...

Kel shaking?

"I...Hate...Ghosts and stuff..." he shuddered, "Anima's bottom half is just... uhh..."

"Oh dear..." Kariudo said rubbing behind her neck, "This might be a bit harder then we thought..."

"Yeah, not only are we missing a bunch of guardians, we've also got people scared of ghosts..." I muttered and noticed Heihachi rubbing at his wing, "You doing ok?"

"Uh! Oh yeah, I'm fine." he said with a smile and giving his wing a slight stretch.

"Careful now folks, I heard that there's some kinda energy radiating here. Might've powered up Anima or somethin' so keep an eye out." Cid cautioned. I nodded in thanks.

"Sure thing Cid, we'll be fine."

"But, how're we going to fight something we can't see?" Kakashi asked, "We can't just blindly swing around."

"Trust me, after this, you'll wish you never saw it." I sighed and walked along the stone planks, "Come on..."

After we followed the planks for a bit, I looked down to see a shiny layer on top of the water. It almost looked like...

Ice.

"Oh no..." I said outloud and ran ahead seeing the whole flooded temple, was covered in the shiny-ness.

"Well, it still looks like water." Kel said kneeling down beside me. Kakashi jumped off the stone walkway landing on the surface.

"Well, it certainly isn't solid." he said, "There's a very thin bit of ice over the water."

"Then how come you can stand on it?" Hakkai asked. Kakashi's eye went into happy archs.

"I'm a ninja, I've learned to walk on water."

"Yeah." Zero said standing beside him. Everyone looked at me expectantly.

"I haven't learned how to do that yet." I replied almost pitifully.

Everyone let out a simple, "Ah."

I rubbed at my chin, "Let's see, Heihachi can fly, Kakashi and Zero can walk on water, everyone except Chichiri and I can swim which is not an option here, and none of us can walk on the ice." I stopped for a moment and examined my Garment Grid. Ok let's see... Samurai, White Mage, Black Knight, Black Mage, Berserker and Songtress- Wait a second Songtress? WHEN THE HECK DID I PUT THAT IN? I sighed.

If only Nero was here he could teleport us inside with his darkness...

"You rang?" his voice said beside me.

"AHH!! IT'S HIM!!" I cried pointing and jumping back.

"What am I, a ghost?" Nero said with a sense of indignity, "I do not think I'd be able to transport so many of you down into the catacombs. Then again, I don't think I'd want to..."

"Aww, please? If we don't send that Aeon it'll wreak havok around here, and Seymour might come and absorb it, that'd be a huge problem." I said rubbing behind my head, "Well, at least he isn't here yet. But please Nero, if we don't stop this guy he'll be stronger then Sephiroth!"

"THAT, is impossible." Kariudo quickly said, "It took me almost an hour and a half to beat him."

"Really?" I asked in awe, "Took me almost five hours... Sephy-sama sure is annoying..." Nero closed his eyes for a moment and sighed.

"I would transport you and your summoner friend and one more, but that is all." he replied.

"But then what about us? What if you need to fight again?" Fayt asked.

"Yeah, only one of us guardians would be able to go with you guys." Zero said.

"Well, Kariudo can choose a guardian, none of them have been getting any action lately." I said with a shrug. I changed into my Samurai Dress sphere, I wanna practice a bit more with my sword, and having Yojimbo's sword kinda comforted the fact I was facing one of the scariest aeons ever...

"Then I shall volunteer." Hakkai smiled. I nodded and turned around when I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"Are you sure you'll be ok? I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to you both..." Heihachi said with a frown.

I smiled, "I'll be fine." Vale shoved in between us and grabbed my hands.

"My love, please keep a hold of this one rose." he said kneeling down and handing the purple rose to me, "If anything is to happen, I shall be there right away!"

"Sure thing Vale." I said with a nod and tucked the flower into my kimono, "Well, let's get going." I noticed that everyone seemed to be eyeing Nero, especially Vincent.

"If you have fear of them dying and me abandoning them, you need not worry." Nero said nonchalantly, "I will assist them if need be."

"So, you're my guardian now too?" I asked curiously. Nero looked down at me.

"If you perished, so would my chances of finding Weiss." he said and unfolded his arms, "Let us go." He rose his hands in front of him over the ice and a dark mass formed underneath the ledge. I glanced back and smiled waving.

Heihachi gave me a hug then pat my head, "Be careful ok?" I saw Miu scowl out of the corner of my eye.

"Aren't I always?" I grinned and jumped in the dark hole with Kariudo and Hakkai followed by Nero.

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Stumbling out of the dark mass, I managed to straighten my robes and peer around as my eyes easily adjusted to the dark.

"Everyone here?" I asked.

"Yes."

"I am."

"As am I."

I gave an encouraging smile. I turned around and went face to face with blazing red eyes. I jumped back into Hakkai covering my mouth as a reflex realizing what it was.

We moved further into the catacombs and eventually, made it to the chamber with the seal over the door.

At least, there was SUPPOSE to be a seal. The only thing left was a giant hole in the wall that still lead to the chamber.

"What happened here? Where're the platforms? Where's the seal?" I asked outloud running around.

"Ok... Let's get out of here, this place is really freaking me out..." Kariudo said and backed away.

"Hold on, perhaps we should explore a bit to see if we could find clues. Or, maybe to find useful items." Hakkai suggested, "Possibly through that tunnel?"

We all peered down the black tunnel and a low grueling groan emitted from it. I felt my face drain at the sound. Every instinct in my body told me to run away as fast as I could.

"This... Is a twisted world..." Nero muttered, "Let's leave."

Gimme giant spiders anyday over this!! Kariudo and I stared at eachother.

"I agree with Nero let's go..." I whimpered, "Seymour can have Anima, he'll be reunited with his mom..."

"Come now, it's can't be that bad." Hakkai said looking back at the tunnel. His monocle almost fell off crashing to the floor if he hadn't caught it last second and slid it back on, "What on...earth?"

We looked back at the room seeing it was covered in a light fog and there was a platform at the end of the seemingly endless room. A dim white light was the only rooms light source and the floor almost looked as if it was rippling. Cautiously edging towards the room, I took the shealth of my sword and poked at the surface.

CLUNK CLUNK.

Well, at least it was solid. I watched myself tuck my sword away into my belt in the reflection from the floor.

I kept my sword unsheathed and turned to the others.

"We'll be really quick..." I said feeling my voice leaving me. My fur was standing on end, I felt so nervous I was... Urg... I feel sick...

The others nodded slowly and followed me to the other side of the room to the platform. I stopped.

"By the look on your face, I'd say there was another thing out of place?" Nero asked.

"The stone that holds the Fayth is suppose to be here. Or, at least the hole that it was suppose to leave behind." I said and shook my head, "This place IS twisted, let's go tell the others it's all clear..."

"Can do." Kariudo said and took a hold of Hakkai's sash, "Don't mind me..." Nero did his normal , 'Hmph' and turned to leave. I quickly followed staring around the room. The fog made the room look endless, not to mention the floor like water. I stared down and my heart almost stopped.

"Miss Kiako? Come, we should leave as fast as possible." Hakkai said walking up beside me, "What's the matter? You look awfully pale, I can see it through your fur."

"Down... Look down..." I pointed feeling my warning buzzer in my head ringing.

Everyone stared down at the floor and rose their eyebrows at me.

"I don't see anything." Hakkai said and put his hand on my forehead, "Are you feeling well?"

"No... really... LOOK." Nero walked beside me peering down where I was pointing.

"I see nothing in the particula-" he stopped, "Ah... I see now..."

"See what? I don't see anything on the floor." Hakkai said. I rolled my eyes and layed the point of my sword on the floor as I held the hilt.

"Look."

Hakkai and Kariudo looked down and jumped back.

"Our reflections!" Kariudo looked around and held her knife in front of her. The knife reflected on the floor, but the rest of her body didn't appear along with the rest of us.

"Gone." Nero said and glanced over his shoulder. His wing shot out and shot off bullets at the platform where four dark figures jumped away. One of them lept to where we were standing and slammed a sword down into the floor sending a shockwave that blasted us back. I rolled to my feet and went into Sora's Keyblade stance.

"Is everyone-" before Hakkai could finish a shadow figure with wings snatched him under the arms and carried him up towards the ceiling.

"Hakkai!" I saw something jump in front of me and put my sword up to block a knife aimed right for my eyeballs. Getting a closer look at the attacker, I saw they had short hair, glowing red eyes and had-

Kariudo's face. I skid backwards and winced when a blade dug itself into my shoulder.

Dammit! When was Kariudo this fast?

Grabbing Dark Kariudo's wrist, I did a backwards kick into her stomach. She slid back and sunk into the floor. I quickly drew my sword and ran at the others. Hakkai was fighting off a Dark Me while Kariudo fought off Dark Hakkai. Nero was fighting off himself.

Or... Trying to peel himself off of himself.

"Damn you LET GO!!" Nero shouted.

"Aw, come on! Someone needs a hug!" the other Nero said cheerfully. His colors were inverted from their usually black and blue, to white and red. Light Nero was hugging normal Nero and normal Nero, was not liking it...

"I swear... I shall purge you into my darkness!"

"Really? Well if you still have those negative thoughts I better hug you even more! COME HERE AND GIVE ME SOME LOVE!"

"GRAAH!! I AM INCAPABLE OF SHOWING LOVE TO YOU! DIE DAMN YOU DIE!"

In all honesty, seeing Nero so happy happy was kinda distrubing...

Hakkai let out a sharp yell as Dark Kiako slashed his shoulder. I charged forward and after dodging past Hakkai, stabbed the dark me through the chest and into the floor. She lay limp there.

For a moment...

She shot back up again sitting and grinned in my face.

"Hello Kiako," she smirked, "I'm Kokuzoku, you're other half."

Authors notes: GRAAAAH!!! Halloween's coming up and I'm dressing as a death god from Bleach. BUT ADVANCE IT HARD!! I'm so tired from all the work... Kuro and I apparently switched sleeping times. I've been sleeping around 1 or 3 am!! Then again, I DID start reading/ Watching D Gray-Man. I like Toma for some reason, and Lavi even if I haven't seen him yet. Oh wells, thanks for reading!